A Chinese Bronze Taotie Mask Wine Vessel You *From Henry Charles Boton's Private Collection The bulging pear-shaped body cast with a broad band of archiastic motifs on the spreading foot and shoulder, all reserved on a leiwen ground and divided by flanges, the cover decorated en suite below a finial, the swing handle cast with diaper pattern terminating at either end in a horned mask, with olive-brown patina.